POET Technologies Inc (NASDAQ:POET) does about 1.86M shares in volume on a normal day but saw 3622239 shares change hands in the recent trading day. The company now has a market cap of 350.01M USD. Its current market price is $4.95, marking a decrease of -8.50% compared to the previous close of $5.41. The 52 week high reached by this stock is $5.60 whilst the lowest price level in 52 weeks is $0.72. The script in recent trading has seen the stock touch a high of $3.5 and a low of $3.5.
POET Technologies Inc (POET) has a 20-day trading average at $4.14 and the current price is -11.61% off the 52-week high compared with 587.50% distance from its 52-week low. The 50-day simple moving average of the closing price is $4.12 and its 200-day simple moving average is $2.66. If we look at the stock’s price movements over the week, volatility stands at 15.82%, which decreases to 9.38% over 1 month. It is also key to look at other market indicators of price movement for the stock, where we see that the relative strength index (RSI) is at 62.32 to suggest the stock is neutral.
The consensus objective for the share price is $6.29, suggesting that the stock has a potential upside of 21.3% over the period. The median price target is -41.43% away from the current levels at $3.5.
The company shares received a number of brokerage firm price updates over the past month, with the latest being on November 18, 2024 when Northland Capital initiated the stock to “Outperform” and issued a price target of $6.
The current price level is 19.62%, 20.04%, and 86.25% away from its SMA20, SMA50, and SMA200 respectively, with the POET price moving below the 50-day SMA on current market day. POET Technologies Inc (POET) stock is up 23.44% over the week and 31.65% over the past month. Its price is 429.19% year-to-date and 462.50% over the past year.
The stock last released its quarterly earnings report for quarter ended 9/30/2024, with the company’s earnings per share (EPS) of -0.13 below consensus estimates by -0.02. The company’s next earnings report forecasts estimating quarterly EPS at -0.07 and -0.44 for whole year. Expected sales for next quarter are $560.5k, which analysts say will come at $59.69k for the current fiscal year and next year at $5.86M. In addition, estimates put the company’s current quarterly revenue at an average of $46.67k.
Its 12-month price target is $3.5. To reach the target analysts have set, the stock logically needs to grow 21.3 percent from here. Of course, the average price target is just what the average analysts believe a stock will be worth in the next 52 weeks, and is only one metric. There are analysts with lower targets than the average, including one bearish Wall Street research firm advocating investors to wait for the price to pull back to $3.5, given the recent momentum. And then, on the bullish side of things, one analyst is expecting the stock to peak at $3.5.
Outstanding shares total 70.21M with insiders holding 0.81% of the shares and institutional holders owning 8.80% of the company’s common stock. The company has a return on investment of -103.52% and return on equity of -161.80%. The beta has a value of 0.43. Price to book ratio is 11.35 and price to sales ratio is 2916.79.
